Cai Weilian | |
Birth Date: | 1904 |
Birth Place: | Shaoxing, Zhejiang, China |
Death Place: | Kunming, Yunnan, China |
Nationality: | Chinese |
Occupation: | Painter |
Spouse: | Lin Wenzheng |
Cai Weilian (; 1904–1939) was a Chinese painter.
Cai Weilian was born and raised in Shaoxing, Zhejiang; of Chinese philosopher Cai Yuanpei seven children, Weilian was reportedly his favourite.[1] She studied oil painting in both Belgium and France.[1]
Cai specialised in modernist oil painting and became a professor at the Hangzhou-based National Academy of Art in 1928.[1]
Cai Weilian married fellow artist Lin Wenzheng and relocated to Kunming, Yunnan. She died after childbirth in 1939.[1]